Episode 1,125: Beach Reading: The Face of Evil

Beach Reading Week continues! While I’m hanging out with the extended family on Cape Cod, I’m reading a bunch of Star Wars stories that I hadn’t had a chance to catch up with previously.

Today’s story from Tales From a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens, Volume 1 is “The Face of Evil,” again by Landry Q. Walker. There was a reference to “cryptosurgeons” working in one of Maz Kanata’s castle towers (in Star Wars: Complete Locations, I believe it was), and in this story, we get to meet them. Wookieepedia lists this one as a “horror story,” and it is, but it also gives you a bit of the From Dusk Till Dawn vibe, if you remember that movie, in that it starts out as a crime drama before it becomes a horror story. But the horrors are much different in this one…

Trivia Time!

Test your knowledge of the Star Wars universe!

Yesterday’s answer: She said she just “found it”

Today’s question: According to the Rogue One novelization, where did Jyn get the blaster?